{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} '''Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DCL|JP}} MP (24 April 1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for South Shields in 1916, resigning in 1918.<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page= 2745 |ref=Burke }}</ref>
Cochrane was born in Sedgehill, Northumberland, the son of civil engineer William Cochrane and his wife, Eliza Collis.<ref>''1871 England Census''</ref> He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating MA in 1894. In 1905, he married Frances Sibyl Potter, the youngest daughter of Colonel Addison Potter CB, of Heaton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
In the general election of December 1910 he fought Durham for the Liberals unsuccessfully, and was briefly Member of Parliament for South Shields from 1916 to 1918, having been elected at a by-election in 1916, during the First World War.<ref name=who>‘COCHRANE, Sir Cecil Algernon’, in ''Who Was Who'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008), [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U235869, online edition] (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 7 December 2010</ref>
He was the chairman of Armstrong College council and the honorary treasurer of the Durham College of Medicine from 1908 to 1926; the two institutions later merged to become Newcastle University.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bettenson |first=EM |date=1971 |title=University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: A Historical Introduction, 1834-1971 |location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne |publisher=Newcastle University |page=50 |isbn=978-0900565281}}</ref> In 1920 he donated a sports ground in Heaton for the use of students at the colleges, which was later named Cochrane Park,<ref>{{cite book |title=University of Durham Calendar for the Year 1936-1937 |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Calendars/1936-7/ducal1936METS.xml#page/630/mode/2up |location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne |publisher=Andrew Reid & Co |page=614 |date=1936}}</ref> and in 1924 he funded the construction of a students' union building.<ref>{{cite news |last=Weatherall |first=Nicola |date=3 October 2011 |title=Newcastle University students set to benefit from building revamp |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-university-students-set-benefit-4420882 |work=The Journal |access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
He was knighted in 1933.<ref name="burkewwii"/>
He died in 1960 in Newcastle upon Tyne, aged 92.<ref name=who/><ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Cecil Cochrane |work=The Times |date=23 September 1960 }}</ref>
An industrial steam locomotive was named after him and is preserved on the Tanfield Railway.
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